Archive for May, 2006

Scripting News for 5/31/2006

Tonight: Henry’s Hunan, 110 Natoma St, 6:30PM. 
I admit I’m corny but I can’t get this song out of my head. 
Fran: “I talked to over one hundred occupational therapists, and only 3 had ever heard of podcasting.” 
Jaron Lanier: “The problem is in the way the Wikipedia has come to be regarded and used; how it’s been [...]

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Scripting News for 5/30/2006

Don’t forget, dinner tomorrow night, Henry’s Hunan, SF. 
PR Week on Share Your OPML. 
I had my pre-BloggerCon talk this morning with John Palfrey, who will lead the pivotal How To Make Money session. I learned my lesson, last time we tried to steer the conversation in a direction away from where the room wanted to go. [...]

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Scripting News for 5/29/2006

Scoble’s mom’s house. Wow! 
Mike Arrington grapples with rumors about integrity. 
Suw Charman wonders how many news staff read their own RSS feeds. 
Dan Fost reports on WineCamp.  
Paolo wishes it were easier to share.  
Security will be extra tight at FU-Camp 2006.  

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Scripting News for 5/28/2006

Barry Bonds hits #715 to pass Babe Ruth. 
8/28/96: “I wonder if the bees are philosophical about their condition in the last minutes of life.” 

SYO: The chicken, egg & frying pan 
TechCrunch: “Share Your OPML is already a good blog ranking system, and over time it has the chance to become the definitive ranking and recommendation system [...]

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Scripting News for 5/27/2006

Steve Gillmor has the summertime blues.  
Cooool, a new Douglas Coupland book to kvell over.  
Ryanne Hodson did a video explaining the Videoblogging session at BloggerCon IV. 
Cory Doctorow: “If you’re going to name the next direction the world will take, you have to be prepared for the world to take that direction. Industry shifts become [...]

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Scripting News for 5/26/2006

Steve Jobs: “If you always want the latest and greatest, then you have to buy a new iPod at least once a year.” 
I had lunch today in Berkeley with George Coates, the creative mind behind Better Bad News. I’ll have lots more to say about this, for sure. Possibly some theater for BloggerCon IV. I [...]

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I still say no to web two oh

I had a post on Scripting News for most of the day yesterday that, after the crazy “Web 2.0″ news of today, must seem prescient. I decided, coming back from the baseball game that it wasn’t worth the grief it would likely cause, so I took it down.
Richard MacManus relents, and decides that Web [...]

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Scripting News for 5/25/2006

Top Podcasts is a new readout of the most-subscribed-to podcasts among Share Your OPML users. Obviously just getting started, with only 117 subscribers for the top-rated podcast, but numbers are interesting, imho.  
Randy Morin: “The coolest new happening in Web 2.0-land in that last month is Share Your OPML.” 
Apparently, Web 2.0 is a trademark. CMP [...]

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Scripting News for 5/24/2006

New Flickr set: Giants vs Cardinals. Live. 
Final score: St Louis 10, San Francisco 4. The wifi at the park was awesome.  
The moving picture view from AT&T Park. 
Steve Gillmor: “I’m having the time of my life.” 
I didn’t know that there was an official Lost podcast. 
Nick Carr says Wikipedia is over. “The end came last Friday. [...]

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Scripting News for 5/23/2006

New Flickr set: After a long rainy spell, the sun came out, and so did the flowers, and walkers. (Flowrs, walkrs?) 
The Mac equivalent of the dreaded Blue Screen of Death.  
Movie version of the Mac equiv of the BSOD. 
Another good Top Ten Lies Of list would be the Top Ten Lies of Apple Computer. They [...]

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